Seeing English and International Characters

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If you see character strings like ??????? or , you are probably not using the correct browser settings. Because of its multilingual content, this web database uses Unicode enabled fonts. Therefore, in order to see the correct characters, please use the following browser settings:

- With Microsoft IE4+:

- View Coding/Unicode (UTF-8)

- With Netscape 4.51+:

- View/CaracterSet/Encoding/Unicode(UTF-8)

- View/CaracterSet/Encoding/Set Default

- Edit/Preferences/Fonts/choose one of the fonts 'Arial Unicode MS' or 'Bitstream Cyberbit'

- SHIFT reload

If you do not have one of these Unicode enabled fonts installed, you can download and install one of the English enabled Unicode fonts Arial Unicode or Bitstream Cyberbit.

If you have MS Office2000 (or parts of it) installed, then you will find the English enabled Unicode font 'Arial Unicode MS' already in your font list.

Windows & Unix:
Click here for an overview of the currently available Unicode fonts, also for Unix.

Macintosh:
Unicode is currently very poorly implemented in Macintosh. Some additional languages can be used by applying the "Language Kits" from the system installer CD first, but most of the language support goes by proprietarian fonts, which is not compatible to the universal Unicode base. Only upcoming Mac OS X is said to have better Unicode support. There is some rudimentarian information about Macintosh and Unicode available on the net.

You may also check our NAVIS II browser compatability list.